Elliott State Forest

Located in the Southern Oregon Coast Range, the Elliott State Forest is a 82,500-acre state owned forestland containing some of Oregon’s last remaining coastal old-growth. Approximately half of the forest is over a century old. It provides a home to threatened and endangered species, vital habitat to elk, black bear, and deer, and some of the strongest wild salmon and steelhead runs left on the Oregon Coast. ODFW biologists estimate that 22% of all wild Oregon coastal coho salmon originate in the Elliott.

The Elliott State Forest is a rich and diverse forest with rare older stands that have never been logged, outstanding coho salmon streams, and excellent recreation opportunities including fishing and hunting for local Oregonians. Under legacy state policies, the Elliott is mandated to provide timber harvest revenue for schools, but logging has declined in recent years to protect rare species such as murrelets and spotted owls. We now need to disconnect school funding from old-growth logging on places like the Elliott, and keep the forests intact and public.

Keeping the Elliot State Forest public was a major victory, but does not ensure permanent environmental protections. We will need your help to guarantee the very best parts of the Elliott are permanently protected. So, stay tuned and sign up for email updates here.